Calero: “It’s a challenge for us to compete against the best”

The coach of Fútbol Club Cartagena, Julián Caleroassured this Thursday, two days after visiting Club Deportivo Leganés, head of LaLiga Hypermotion, that for him and his team “it is a challenge to compete against the best in the category” and stressed that they must give “110% of our potential.” to win or tie this clash on the thirty-third day of the championship.

Calero addressed a press conference after the training session conducted by the black and white team at José María Ferrer Sports City of La Manga Club to continue the preparation for the match that will be held on Saturday at four fifteen in the afternoon at the Butarque stadium.

It will be a match between two teams on the rise, Leganés top the table with 59 points and six cushions for direct promotion to the First Division as champion of the Second Division and Efesé, which is sixteenth with 38 and 23 added in the last 11 days. Both have just won, the pepineros 1-2 in the field of Villarreal Club de Fútbol subsidiary and the black and whites 1-0 against Fútbol Club Andorra to be six points above the relegation zone today.

What happened in the first round between both contenders in Cartagonova stadium with a clear victory for Leganés by 0-3. “It was a game with two halves and after an even first half in the second they managed to play their game and beat us well. Leganés are on top and very strong, have the best numbers in the category, and have automation that I like them a lot, as well as their way of working as a team,” said the Madrid coach, adding that they will face the match with a good mentality: “We know that we are going to the leader’s house, but we are positive. . For us this is a very important game. Also, we are confident and we will see if we can score.”

Regarding the team led by Borja Jiménez, the coach who guided Efesé to promotion in 2020, Julián Calero did not spare his praise. “It’s a very compact and complete block, which is very good attacking and defending. It will definitely force us to be 110% of our potential. but we are already competing on important fronts and there is no doubt that this will be a good match to play,” said Calero.

“To achieve something positive in Butarque, each of us, within our possibilities, must make the most of and, considering now the most important part of the season and with so many needs, we must know how to deal with the situation. Our style has worked well for us and we will continue in this line,” he added.

Julián Calero, in his first year in Cartagena, was so bad in the city that on Holy Tuesday he participated as a guest in Holy Week procession carrying the Virgin of La Piedad. “It was a very nice moment because I didn’t expect it. They told me to go and I was very excited. The feeling of people’s love is incredible.. The generosity they have done to me is very exciting and I want to thank those who made it possible,” acknowledged one from Parla.